Iranian actress Leila Hatami has apologized for kissing the Cannes Film Festival president on the check — an act which angered authorities in Tehran. In a May 23 letter to Iran’s cinema organization quoted by the state news agency IRNA, Hatami said she was “sorry for hurting the feelings of some people.” Hatami said […]
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Iranian Billionaire Executed For Fraud
A billionaire Iranian businessman involved in a $2.6 billion state bank scam has been executed. Iranian state television reported on May 24 that Mahafarid Amir Khosravi, also known as Amir Mansur Aria, was executed at Evin prison, north of Tehran earlier in the day. Khosravi’s lawyer, Gholam Ali Riahi, said he had not received […]
Interrogation of Jafar (Siamak) Sohrabi, One of Assistant Directors of Gonabadi Dervishes Welfare- Madadkari Reza
Gonabadi Dervish and one of assistant directors of Gonabadi Dervishes welfare, ” madadkari Reza”, Jafar (Siamak) Sohrabi was summoned and interrogated by Tehran security police.According to a report by Majzooban Noor, Jafar Sohrabi resident of Tehran who is working in Reza welfare, was summoned by Tehran security police via telephone call and interrogated for […]
Iran Court Reportedly Orders Instagram Blocked
Iran’s semiofficial Mehr news agency is reporting that a court has ordered that Instagram be blocked over privacy concerns. Mehr said a court order had been given to Iran’s Ministry of Telecommunications to ban the popular mobile phone photo-sharing service because of a lawsuit. Social websites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook have already […]
Former reformist MP serves out sentence
Behzad Nabavi, a prominent reformist and executive member of the Mujahedin of the Islamic Revolution Party, was released from Evin Prison after completing his sentence. ISNA reports that Nabavi left Evin Prison on May 22. Nabavi was swept up in the wave of arrests that followed the controversial reelection of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in 2009, […]
Rouhani official visits synagogue, endorses pre-revolutionary flag
President Hassan Rouhani’s minority affairs adviser has caused a stir by visiting a synagogue and suggesting reverting to Iran’s flag from before the revolution, raising the ire of conservatives.Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s senior adviser for ethnic and religious minority affairs, Ali Younesi, recently visited a synagogue in Shiraz and expressed his support for using […]
Victims’ families mercy saves more killers from death sentence
Two more people have escaped death by hanging with the consent of their victims’ families in recent days. The Etemad daily reports that in Tonkabon, a murder convict was pardoned at the gallows on the morning of Wednesday May 21, and the head of Neyshapour prisons announced that one of the prisoners was released […]
Tehran’s improved air quality linked to better gasoline
Yousef Rashidi, the head of the Air and Climate Division of Iran’s Department of Environmental Protection, reported that in an unprecedented trend, Tehran’s air quality has not reached unhealthy levels in the past two months. In an interview with IRNA, Rashidi said one of the chief causes of the rise in air quality in […]
No news on whereabouts of 10 Sunni men arrested last month
There has been no news about the condition of ten Sunni men who are being held at an unknown location since their arrest a month ago in the cities of Bukan and Mahabad, West Azerbaijan province of Iran. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), the men have not been […]
Iran security forces arrest a 15-year old Sunni boy
A 15-year old boy and a Sunni teacher were arrested by security forces last week in Baneh, Kurdistan province of Iran. According to the report of Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Fazel Choupani, a Sunni teacher at a school in Baneh, and a boy known as Loghman, were arrested on 14 May 2014. […]